Department of Archaeology
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Managing Editor, Journal of East Asian Archaeology

As an archaeologist focusing on China, David Cohen's primary areas of interest and research include state formation and ethnicity in early Bronze Age China as well as the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and the origins of agriculture in East Asia. He is involved in several fieldwork projects excavating late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in the lower Yellow River and early agricultural sites in the middle Yangzi River regions. As Project Manager of the ARC/Base Project, Dr. Cohen coordinates the work of an international, collaborative team of leading research institutes across East Asia in their work of compiling a comprehensive, multilingual database of bibliographic information on East Asian archaeology. This project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is based at ICEAACH.

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